• NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There is concern among researchers, regulatory experts and drugmakers themselves that allowing hospitals to market treatments for a fee could cause profit-making to trump ethical considerations

      :wonder-who-thats-for:

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There is concern among researchers, regulatory experts and drugmakers themselves that allowing hospitals to market treatments for a fee could cause profit-making to trump ethical considerations.

      This seems like the money shot. What a way to phrase it by Bloomberg. Truly the least generous interpretation. This part is fucked up. It seems weird that this is a Chinese problem. Seems like business as usual for America though

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      There is concern among researchers, regulatory experts and drugmakers themselves that allowing hospitals to market treatments for a fee could cause profit-making to trump ethical considerations.

      :internet-delenda-est:

    • princeofsin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Instead of the two to three weeks taken by current treatments from American and European drug makers, the Shanghai-based company — set up by a group of veteran Chinese cell-therapy researchers — is churning out cancer-killing immune cells overnight.

      But at what cost?

      • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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        3 years ago

        But at what cost?

        Gracell plans to price its CAR-T treatment for about 500,000 yuan ($71,000), well below the $475,000 price tag for Novartis’ Kymriah, the Swiss company’s CAR-T therapy used to treat the type of blood cancer that Zhang had

        $400,000

      • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        lol churning out, what a choice of words. Yeah man, these unscrupulous Chinese are just churning out cheap vials of anticancer, who knows what the build quality on those things is amirite?

        • MerryChristmas [any]
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          3 years ago

          What do you mean are? I wake up, walk down to the factory, grab my shovel and start scooping piles of cancer-killing immune cells onto patients as they get passed down the conveyer belt. Because that's what real doctors do.